As Ryuu sat and cultivated he focused on his soul realm. As his mind cleared a blue foggy orb appeared. 

This made him confused “where’s the palace?” he wondered as he starred at the blue sphere.

He slowly approached it, as he got closer the fog slow dispersed. As he floated in front of it, he extended out his arm and placed his hand on it. 

Then a complicated inscription appeared around his hand in a circle, then four lines formed creating a ‘x’ with the inscription pattern as the center.

The inscription glowed with a bright golden luster, then the lines all lit up as the middle of the ‘x’ opened up and pulled Ryuu in.

As he slowly floated forward he saw the palace on the blue orb was inside this blue orb. He was astonished as he turned back and looked at the blue orb behind him that was once again solid.

“So my soul has two layers?” Ryuu was so confused. He landed on the blue orb and walked over to Ye Mo’s building, when he went inside only Ye Mo’s empty birth stone was in the cage. 

“He must be in the ring” thought Ryuu as he walked towards the palace.

When Ryuu opened the palace doors he was even more confused. 

The big gold and white room where the ring use to be, looked a lot different now.

On the altar where the Ancestral Oracle Ring use to be, there was now three knew items; and on the back wall that use to be blank now had two massive doors that were even more grand then the palace doors.

Ryuu first approached the alter and inspected the three floating objects. The first one almost looked like a black flame.

As he inspected the other two he realized they were fire, and air, so the first one had to be a shadow.

He reached his hand out and touched the little tornado of air, suddenly he felt a rush through his body. The air was so sharp it felt like blades, that made his bones ache.

He reached his hand out towards the fire. Suddenly it felt as if he was standing on the sun, his blood felt like it was starting to boil.

It was so intense he lost concentration as he opened his eyes and started to gasp for breath, as he tried to relax again.

“Just what in the hell was that? So much power in those little spheres of energy.” After Ryuu thought for a moment, he closed his eyes and cleared his mind.

When he finally reached the palace again he walked inside, but this time he didn’t stop at the altar; instead he walked to the mysterious new doors.

When he got to the doors he was at a loss, the entire door was gold and metallic black. It was completely covered in complicated inscriptions, and in the middle was the Ancestral Oracle Ring.

As Ryuu placed his hand on the door all the inscriptions started to glow and the ring spun to the left as the doors slowly opened.

When Ryuu looked inside he was baffled. Behind this door somehow was the library, Ryuu walked in and looked for Ye Mo.

When he saw he wasn’t inside the library he went to the front doors. As he opened them he saw the doors in his soul wasn’t just to the library but was connected to the whole realm inside the Ancestral Oracle Ring.

Ryuu immediately started to search for Ye Mo, after about twenty minutes he found him sleeping in the shade by a small pond.

Ryuu called out to him as he approached “Hey Ye Mo.”

*Humph*

Ye Mo slowly lifted his head and roared as he yawned.

“Oh, its you Ryuu, what's on your mind kid.” Said Ye Mo who was still slowly waking up.

“I got some things I’d like to ask you real quick.”

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“Go ahead, and I'll see if I have some answers.” Chuckled Ye Mo 

Ryuu nodded and said “Well the first thing is, why is there doors connecting my soul to the realm inside the ring?” 

“Because of your blood seal with the ring, you’re the door.” Ye Mo replied 

“what do you mean ‘I am the door’.” Asked Ryuu who was now even more confused.

“Because of your seal with the ring you’re the door to this realm. The only way in or out is through you, you control this realm.” Said Ye Mo a little more seriously.

“So I’m like the door and the ring is the key?” asked Ryuu 

Ye Mo let out a grunt and said “Well not exactly more like a gate keeper, but close enough. What’s your other question?”

“Okay, so why are there two layers to my soul?” 

“Two layers? What do you mean?” asked Ye Mo 

Ryuu then explained the first blue orb to Ye Mo.

Ye Mo explained that the outer layer is his actual soul, and everything inside was his minds ‘inner city.'

Ye Mo continued to explain and said “Everyone has a different mind set and they look at things differently. So just like how everyone’s different, so is there inner city. Your self image and identity are so solid and strong, you don’t have a soul city.”

“What do you mean I don’t have an inner city, I’ve seen it!” exclaimed Ryuu as he jumped to his feet.

*hahahahaha*

Ye Mo roared as he laughed “Calm down boy, you have no city, because you have an inner kingdom!”

Ryuu stood there speechless as he started at Ye Mo, he then went to sit on a rock but he fazed right through.

“What the?” said Ryuu as he looked up at Ye Mo.

Ye Mo just roared and laughed again as he said “You entered the ring through your soul, so only your conscious is here right now, you half to use your qi to touch things inside here.”

“Oh, that makes sense.” Said Ryuu as he shook his head and laughed. “One last thing, what’s up with the three elements inside the palace?”

“There the elements that you have a strong knowledge and grasp of, everyone has one. But be careful, with each additional element it becomes harder to suppress and control.” Said Ye Mo as he narrowed his brows and starred at Ryuu

Ryuu nodded his head and said “You don’t need to tell me twice, that tornado earlier almost ripped my soul apart!”

Ye Mo growled as he said “Why do you think I’m in here, that shit storm nearly shredded me to bits!”

After a long awkward silence, they both just laughed. 

Then after they talked a little more, they went back to the library and Ye Mo showed Ryuu how to use his qi to grab things. 

But so far he was only able to hold things for a few seconds.

“There are two types of bending, elemental bending and qi bending. You already know how to manipulate and change you qi’s nature so you can elemental bend, but to qi bend you will need to learn to manipulate and bend just your qi and use it as a power of its own.” explained Ye Mo

“Qi bending? I’ve never heard of that before.” Said Ryuu

“Of course you haven’t its an old forgotten advance technique from over century ago.” Said Ye Mo a little Indignantly 

Then before Ryuu could say anything, he was suddenly being shaken awake. When he opened his eyes, he saw Ryo shaking his arm as he stared out into the trees with wide eyes.

“What’s wrong?” whispered Ryuu as he also looked into the trees

“Shhh, start moving but stay low!” Ryo anxiously whispered back.